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ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2020

Evaluation of Protection Level, Respiratory Safety, and Practical Aspects of Commercially Available Snorkel Masks as Personal Protection Devices Against Aerosolized Contaminants and SARS-CoV2.

Peter Germonpre, Dirk Van Rompaey, Costantino Balestra

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Article in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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15citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

15 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  9. Protective Face Masks: Effect on the Oxygenation and Heart Rate Status of Oral Surgeons during Surgery.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021
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  11. A Bibliometric Network Analysis of Coronavirus during the First Eight Months of COVID-19 in 2020.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021
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  14. A novel mask to prevent aerosol spread during nebulization treatment.Journal of the Formosan Medical Association = Taiwan yi zhi · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Peter GermonpreCentre for Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy, Military Hospital Brussels, 1120 Brussels, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0003-2481-7376
Dirk Van RompaeyDefence Laboratories DLD, Kwartier Maj Housiau, 1800 Vilvoorde, Belgium.
Costantino BalestraDAN Europe Research Department, 64026 Roseto, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-6771-839X

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

AerosolsMasksPersonal Protective EquipmentBetacoronavirusCarbon DioxideCoronavirus InfectionsCOVID-19HumansInfection ControlInfectious Disease Transmission, Patient-to-ProfessionalOccupational ExposurePandemicsPneumonia, ViralReproducibility of ResultsRespiratory Protective DevicesSARS-CoV-2AerosolsCarbon Dioxidepersonal protection devicessafety testSARS-CoV2snorkel masks

Identifiers

PMID32575366
PMCPMC7345301

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Registered trials

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